The BBA version of Night Drift, sounds like a good idea. From a 25 cl bottle with the text printed on the bottle, bought at Dranken De Moor in Haasdonk. Creamy, dense, regularly shaped, thick, largely closed, yellowish beige head over a black beer with hazy mahogany edges. Strong bouquet of cold black coffee, cappuccino, fondant chocolate, quite outspoken bourbon, soaking wet wood, fresh paint, kahlua, cinnamon, caramel, nutmeg, nougat, dried prunes, old raisins, fig, cigar box wood, porcini, salmiak (the salted aspect of the caramel, I suppose), dried ginger, dry earth, toast. Dried fruits sweetness in the onset, raisins, prunes, figs, undertone of roasted barley sourishness, thin cured meat-like umami edge, quite vivid but finely tingling carbonation, oily mouthfeel, a bit more thin than you would expect from a near-10% ABV stout but acceptable enough. The salty edge is apparent at the sides of the tongue, like in the regular version, but drowns in toffeeish, bitter black chocolate-like and eventually very toasted maltiness, sweetish at first but quickly turning more bitter and developing full coffeeish roasted bitterness in the end, blending with vanilla-ish oak colours as well as a kick of peppery hops, accentuated by a long, heating, sharpish bourbon-like alcohol flavour. This alcohol heat grows further in the back of the mouth and throat and has solventy, glueish edges, eventually becoming a bit wry and fatiguing, making this beer feel stronger than 9.9% ABV. Long-lasting, bitter finish, heated by this alcohol but still with a lovely, toffeeish caramel flavour hidden within. Slow sipper of relatively high standard, certainly within the context of BBP's range; I like the regular beer a lot and drink it every now and then, so aging it on a bourbon barrel sounded like a good idea. Unfortunately the bourbon effect, in the form of a strong, wry, peppery alcohol heat, is a bit much for me here so this could have been a tad more subtle I suppose; still, an enjoyable 'bière de dégustation', all things considered, with the well-structured character ofg the basic beer: the soft salty aspect staying neatly in place in the onset and the bitter coffee and sweeter toffee aspects coming to full development in the middle and finish. Main difference here is the sharp alcohol effect, basically.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brussels Beer Project / Laugar Night Drift (Bourbon Barrel-aged) (by Brussels Beer Project):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

20/IV/18 - 25cl bottle from a trade @ home - bottled: 6/XI/17 (2018-463)

Clear dark brown beer, small irregular creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit malty first, then very metallic, soft roast, bit dusty, ashes. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish up front, sweet touch, some chocolate, soft roast, bit of charcoal. Aftertaste: little metallic bitterness, some coffee, chocolate, more roast, some charcoal, bit acidic, salty touch, not much caramel left though...

Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Shared with Anke.
Pours cloudy black with a thin, tan head. The aroma contains caramel, roasted malt, bourbon, dark chocolate, some wood, hint of salt, candied apple. It tastes medium chocolatey sweet and light to medium roasted bitter with salty touches; hoppy, toasty finish & sharpish bourbon alcohol. Full body, slick texture, soft carbonation. This one has it all (salted caramel, chocolate, roast & bourbon), even though all elements remain rather subtle.

Bottle from Geers. Dark brown/black colour, brown foam. Roasted malts, cacao, light salty, some caramel, some metallic and varnish notes. I liked the base beer, this isn't very well barrel aged.

Bouteille 25cl, bottled 06/11/2017, no BB. Brune foncée, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme met bien en avant l'effet Bourbon sur un léger rétro de vanille, pointe de chocolaté en rétro et un Bourbon qui demeure assez dominant. Petite touche houblonnée accompagnée par un effet un peu toffee. Palais met bien devant l'effet des 10%, le Bourbon se note bien avec cependant un effet de Bourbon shot liquide un peu trop dominant et moins le caractère boisé et vanillé attendu. Note aussi un malt chocolaté, sur petite note épicée et un fini légèrement salé qui renvoie à ce côté caramel salé.

250 ml. bottle shared & sampled. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the base beer & this one has on top some really bad barrel aging in my opinion. Black, little head. Nose is extremely heavy on varnish, glue, paint, chemical,… Taste is vegetable, extreme on that glue, chemical, paint, solvent, everything else low vegetable chocolate, malt, caca is hidden underneath this pain, glue, solvent, really what happened here?